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bier's Copse) near Cowes. Waste ground betwixt Yarmouth and 

 Shalfleet. By the lower farm at Ningwood. Merston, plentifully, 

 1847. Abundant in 1844 in several places, as Godshill, Newchurch, 

 Shanklin, Wraxall, America, &c. Northwood Park ; Miss G. Kil- 

 derbee !!! East bank of the Medina below Copping's Bridge (New- 

 port) ; Mr. W. D. Snooke (Fl. Vect.) : and in various other places 

 occasionally. I am unable to state its frequency in mainland Hants, 

 but as far as my observation has yet extended, it appears to be rarer 

 considerably than in the Isle of Wight, as I have seldom lighted on it 

 myself, nor have I but in one instance received notice or specimens 

 from others. At Iford, near Christchurch, October 2nd, 1849. He- 

 ron Court ; Mr. J. Curtis in litt. and Brit. Entom. vol. ix. tab. 402, 

 ex loco. It is not mentioned in Mr. Notcutt's List of the Plants 

 about Fareham (Phytol. ii. p. 201), but is probably dispersed perhaps 

 sparingly throughout the county. The var. acutifolium, E. B. xxi. t. 

 1481, is the prevailing, if not the only form of this plant with us in 

 Hants. 



Chenopodium urbicum, var. intermedium. Next to the following (C. 

 album) this is by far the most common species of the genus in Hants, 

 at least in the Isle of Wight. Its usual stations are on dung-hills, 

 rich waste ground in the outskirts of towns (hence its specific name) 

 and on village greens, but most particularly in and around farmyards. 

 Abundant at Troublefield and Ninham farms, near Kyde. Common 

 on St. Helen's Green and at Sandown, about the cottages and farms. 

 At Ventnor and Niton. By YafFord Mill. Grange by Brixton. At 

 Adgeton, Arreton, Chillerton, Hasely, Brook, Compton, Palmers, Up- 

 per Morton, Yaverland, Rill and other farms, often in great abun- 

 dance. Probably frequent throughout the county, though 1 have 

 myself noticed it as yet in but few places on the mainland. At Blash- 

 ford Green, Ibbetley, and elsewhere betwixt Ringwood and Fording- 

 bridge. By Sowley farm. Wallington (near Fareham) ; Mr. W. L. 

 Notcutt ! Var. j3. Spikes ramose, subcymose ; upper leaves nearly 

 entire. In the farm-yard at Sheepwash, by Appledurcombe, and in a 

 lane close to Yaverland farm. At YafFord Mill, near Shorwell. The 

 Rev. G. E. Smith has observed the same variety in Sussex, but I sus- 

 pect it to be a monstrosity, and to arise from a diseased state of the 

 plant, having never seen this form of inflorescence on large and vigo- 

 rous individuals, but only on small discoloured and unhealthy ones. 

 The inflorescence in this variety resembles that of C. murale. It has 

 come up in St. John's garden, near Ryde, from seed, I believe, of the 

 common form, nor is the transformation of the inflorescence from 



